The Madras High Court today set aside the trial court’s decision to discharge seven accused – including former Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran – in the illegal telephone exchange case. Summing up the tone of the judgement, Justice G Jayachandran observed, “Error, illegality and perversity all could be pointed out in the impugned order of the trial Court.” The case pertains to allegations that the accused – including BSNL executives, Dayanidhi Maran, his brother Kalanidhi Maran, and technicians – conspired to install a private telephone exchange at Dayanidhi Maran’s Chennai residences, when he was the Union Telecom Minister. This, in turn, is alleged […]
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